i installed this incredible great software last night and i failed to setup my analog cams.

I've got an analog Capture Card with 4 videoinputs (Grandtec) and want to display 4 analog cams with this board...Iam wondering how to connect the board virtually with pluto... like card->/dev/video0. How does pluto know the right linux-device when iam generating a new device/interface

Could you please give me an step-by-step how-to for installation, please ?

2. I have added child devices - Generic Analog Camera for each camera that is connected to it.....

2 main parameters to setup :Device(string) 8 ; that means Device Number of /dev/videoX Port/Channel Number(int) 0 ; Port Number on the capture device

3. I have 4xbt878 device so each camera is on its own /dev/video device. so I simply put different Device number and same port for all cameras - if you have 1xbt878 card that is switching between inputs, then you'll have cameras on same device and different ports - but I'm not sure whether Pluto will work correctly under these settings, so your feedback will be valuable to correct things to work under those cards too....

4. you add quad or single view scenarios to Orbiters where you can see pictures from cams (hopefully :-) )

I think that the main problem comes from debian modules-loading...After analysing the syslog i found out, that the bttv-driver is loaded successfully and the grandtek x guard card is registered as video0. Then some lines later one of the scripts is unloading the bttv driver... and i dont know why.

That module unloading is actually a side effect of what I did. I run a modified version of alsaconf (I removed the interactive part of it) to load sound modules. I did that because bttv kept getting the 1st audio device. I'll probably disable hotplug from running from the SysV scripts and run it after alsaconf, so you get bttv after sound is being set up. alsaconf unloads the bttv module.

In the meantime, you could just add "modprobe bttv" to the end of /usr/pluto/bin/alsaconf-noninteractive, just before "exit 0". This is kind of a hack, I know, but I can't think of anything else right now.

if you have 1xbt878 card that is switching between inputs, then you'll have cameras on same device and different ports - but I'm not sure whether Pluto will work correctly under these settings, so your feedback will be valuable to correct things to work under those cards too....

So please get back with info, how it works for you....

Hi Rob,to give you feedback about the ports... all 4 video-in-devices are running under /dev/video0 with port 0,1,2,3 at the same time !!!